A NEW YEAR OR NOT?

WHO REMEMBERS 1979 STILL?

Iraq Protesters Break Into U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
Demonstrators marched on the compound, breached the outer wall and lit fires.
Tensions are high after American airstrikes killed 24 members of an Iraqi militia backed by Iran.
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American Airstrikes Rally Iraqis Against U.S.
Washington — not Tehran — is now the focus of Iraqi hostility at an opportune moment for Iran, which has faced pushback in the region and unrest at home.
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World War III?

Iranians storm U.S. Embassy, Nov. 4, 1979 -
Nov 4, 2017 - On this day in 1979, student followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini send shock waves across America when they stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. President Jimmy Carter called the hostages “victims of terrorism and anarchy” and added: “The United States will not yield ...

One thing I have noticed about Americans, we just don't know when we have it good. Always courting trouble, and then when we find it: it is never our fault, eh?

We should have brought all of our troups and embassy people from the Middle East region long long ago. IT is simply not our fight, and we have killed enough civilians and innocents that we'd likely lose the population of a small to mid-sized state here, were they to take one of ours out for every one of theirs we have killed...

Americans are stupid sometimes because they pick these fights abroad ("HooRah! Tough Guy Warriors all equipped up), and think the troubles will never come to our own doorsteps. That we are somehow immune, and fat, and this is all a joke...

IT's not a joke, really.
If Americans do not start acting more like civilized beings on this Earth, I hate to see what will come of all of us. Be warned. One-sided aggression against what you consider a lesser or weaker other rarely lasts. Especially against those who have so little to lose. (Only their lives, it seems.) Eventually, you get hit back.

Are we ready for that at home? If not, we should not always be in attack mode. #CommonSense101
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The protesters raised flags of the powerful paramilitary group Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), of which Kataib Hezbollah is part, and several people climbed over the wall of the embassy and chanted "death to America" and "no, no America", witnesses said.

Tuesday's attempted embassy storming took place after mourners held funerals for fighters killed in a Baghdad neighbourhood, after which they marched on to the heavily fortified Green Zone and kept walking till they reached the embassy.

Security guards were seen retreating to the inside of the embassy. Protesters also were seen hanging yellow flags belonging to the Kataib Hezbollah on the walls of the embassy.

Speaking from the scene in Baghdad, Al Jazeera's Simona Foltyn said there was no indication of an armed confrontation so far.

It is not our land, and George W. Bush's illegal wars are not forgotten THERE. (Where my purple-fingered people now? Where the schools the US military promised to build for the little girls, to make life better for the women and children over there like W. promised?) We were killing for GOOD, soldiers as missionaries to give out candy, pose for pics, help them vote, promote peace...

How foolish we were. Confusing religious missionary work with what we want our soldiers to do. Now, it's all mixed up, the good guys have good bad (look at the suicide rates here at home!) and we live in a pro-gun, no-respect-for-life culture, here at home...

America? You Built This.
Thanks George W. Bush enablers.